#❛ alternative allegory ─ ( event )

[anghexescu]

@innerbeast & @hollowfaith

And so it's decided. The moment Fiyero gets everything settled with his canine companion inside and everything else needed grabbed and handled, she takes Dar'khol's hand and without a single word, Klaus is teleporting the three of them to the area where he senses Seofon and Aurelius the strongest.

He had picked up on it before. When they were at Fiyero's place. The smell of blood, of burning flesh and burning blood. Here, where they've teleported to, the scent is much stronger. Almost as bad as when Dar'khol and he had made it to Fiyero's tortured resting point.

He doesn't have to see what's in that massive crater to know that Aurelius is in it. Seofon had done more than NUMBERS on him. Aurelius had certainly got what was coming to him. He's....frozen in place for just that moment. It's fear that he feels. However, when he sees Fiyero running in that direction---In the direction of Seofon, and without even thinking for another second, Klaus is following.

he almost didn't catch much of what Fiyero said, but his mind focused eventually on the task at hand. He shows that he's acknowledged what Fiyero says and makes his way toward the crater. His heart PUMPS against his chest upon seeing his partner Aurelius there, unmoving. Sliding down, he's eventually right by Aurelius on his knees.

he can't die yet.

He holds back any tears that threaten to spill for Aurelius. He swallows deeply and looks up at Dar'khol. He sniffs and lowers his head to look back at Aurelius.

He cannot die yet.

And with that single thought repeating in his head, he's bringing Aurelius back to life.

[isolaradiale]

November was perhaps the most frustrating time of the year for Ofiuco. The Stars were always running maintenance on the island's functionality, making sure that even in a worst case scenario there would still be systems to fall back on if things went wrong outside of their own plans. It didn't happen often, but sometimes things slipped in that they didn't intend on.

But every November the Stars performed a big backup of the island's data. It was a lot of work, and involved pausing the city altogether so that the citizens that lived there had no idea that anything was amiss. That day, in this year's case November 8th, would feel like it had happened to them. Even though it actually hadn't.

"Why does this always fall on me to do? It's boring..." Ofiuco knew the reason. Her main body had evolved past her original schematics, but her robot body within the island's setting had all of the tools installed to make the data backup easier. None of the other Stars were allowed to touch that body since it was an extension of herself.

Ofiuco wasn't focused on the task at hand like she should have been though, so she didn't notice that she had accidentally hit the wrong button. "OOPS!?" At least until it was too late. Just like that, everyone's data in the city had been wiped. "...Good thing this is why we have backups in the first place." Everyone in the city was reconstructed from that backup, but something was wrong. Something that Ofiuco didn't catch at all.

All of the character data had been reinstated but it was jumbled. Characters were recreated as if they came from different worlds altogether, which would lead to a crisis that only some were able to realize. But how long would it take for the Stars to notice?

WHAT'S GOING ON?

Welcome to our last new event of 2024, ALTERNATIVE ALLEGORY!

Ofiuco made a little oopsie that slipped past her radar and accidentally deleted everyone's character data during the yearly big backup. Good thing she had the previous day's basic backup to reinstate them!

But something corrupted the backup, and while all of the characters were reinstated, all of the data has been jumbled up.

Because of this, the characters have been recreated as if they were from different worlds altogether.

Think of this as a chance to design an AU for your character, like Lloyd Irving from Tales of Symphonia as if he were an Ace Attorney character, for example!

All threads must be set on November 9th or later. The characters will believe they lived through November 8th, but the city was in maintenance mode on that day and wasn't actually active!

This event will run until 11:59:59PM EST on Friday, November 29th!

WHAT ARE THE RULES FOR DESIGNING OUR CHARACTER'S AU?

You can pick any series from the masterlist to design an AU version of your character from! You only require mun permission if you're using an original character's world instead. You cannot use a series that is not on our masterlist.

You can design an entire backstory for that character as if they're from that world, however you must abide by our fandom OC policies. This means you cannot give them direct ties to any characters from that canon.

Similarly, you can give them powers or change their appearances according to the setting but must abide by our fandom OC policies regarding what is or what isn't acceptable. That means you can't give them any powers that rival or surpass the main characters. Powers are uncapped for this event so this isn't too limiting.

You aren't required to AU your character if you don't want to! That said, if you want participation for this event you will need to write with someone who is AUed.

Whether your character realizes they have been AUed and remember their original canon or not is up to you! Do whatever you think works better for what you plan!

You can change your character's AU if you'd like! You're not bound to one for the whole event, you can have several!

To make it easier for others to keep track of what you've done, we recommend making a post describing the AU and everything that has changed.

If you have any questions about the event, please send them to the masterlist! We will not be answering them in the Discord server so that everyone can see the answers!

[darkenforcer]

@innerbeast

"don't you guys have anything better to do? trial's over. i did the best i could." honestly... as if they'd expected their dolt of a leader to get off with a light warning. desperate for cash or not, you can't just go around robbing people in broad daylight, for crying out loud! paid him up front expecting a miracle, seems like.

"'best ya could'!? landin' our boss behind bars isn't what we paid for, ya hack!" one of the burlier lugs up front snarls with a curl of his hammy fists, "if we woulda known, we wouldn'ta spent a single dust on your sorry ass!"

oh, so a reduced sentence means nothing? what happened to beggars can't be choosers?

yuri sighs, irritation festering; a glare peeks through dark bangs. "how about you turn around and spend what's left of it on his bail, then?" (also reduced, might he add), "i won't even charge you for the legal advice. aren't i charitable?"

"why, you little--" the big guy charges and...!

BLAM!! briefcase, meet face!

before another snarky quip can leave his snarky lips, though, an unseen assailant leaps in from behind, hooks beneath his arms, and lifts him into the air! "wh-- hey!" yuri struggles, kicking his legs to no avail.

"urgh--! let go, damn it!!"

[gaiaspoken]

Even as she went through her usual morning and afternoon routines, she couldn't shake her weird restless feeling since waking up. Something about this entire day had felt…off, but there weren't any signs of why. As she does her best to keep busy, a text from Keigo saying that he'd be stopping by earlier than usual leaves her feeling a little confused, but it's not entirely uncommon, so it's easily brushed off. As she hears the front door open and she goes to greet him though, she's met with a strange sight.

The unfamiliar visage of a stranger greets her but on instinct, she ducks behind a wall before she's seen entirely.

"Aerith, you there?" he calls for her, and the voice is familiar at least. But as she peaks her head around the corner to further examine him, it's clear that he isn't someone that she knows. He looked more akin to a bird than anything. Much more bird than man, she'd say. Deciding that she can't keep hiding forever, a hand reaches for the frying pan on the stove before she shows herself, the pan pointed toward him threateningly.

"Whoever you are, my boyfriend is on the way and then you're gonna have to deal with both of us."

@wingherc

[tainted-chains]

Ciara was wearing the same outfit she was convinced she'd come to Isola in--a corset, skirt, and tall stompy boots, black-furred cat ears twitching in sync with an equally black-furred cat tail as slit-pupilled brown eyes scanned the Fibonacci ward. She was vaguely aware that something was wrong, but her brain was having trouble distinguishing between realities--Thedas and Remnant both seemed equally real to her, and she couldn't pinpoint which was the mistake and which was her original universe.

Which was annoying, to put it mildly.

She was so caught up in her own head that she slammed into the back of the woman in the broad-brimmed heat, stumbling back to land flat on her ass, blinking, her tail fluffed out and her ears back in surprise, "I--oh! Sorry! I didn't see you there. I think I might be...scrambled? Have you ever felt like you were from two different universes at once, and you couldn't tell which was supposed to be the real one?"

She splayed her hands, helplessly, "That's me, right now."

(Starter for @railheist)

[swordsovereign]

@hollowfaith

Seofon had tried his best to keep his promise- to be the protector that Fiyero needed. To his credit, he'd managed to stay calm until Fiyero had fallen asleep ⎛ and he'd tried to get some rest himself ⎠ and he wanted to say that he was a little more level headed when he woke up.

Except, that wasn't really the case, was it? Certainly not when he'd set off to the Sanctus Clinic to wait for Aurelius to leave-

Just a talk, he'd whispered upon Fiyero's lips- I'm not going to get myself killed- but I also can't just let him get away with this. What Aurelius had done was monstrous- Seofon fancied himself a fairly skilled slayer of monsters. Not that it was the main task of the Eternals, but when a monster was a true threat... It was his duty to step in.

❝ Hey- ❞ Aurelius sure is easy to recognize. He holds himself like a haughty bastard, and Seofon can see exactly what sort of person he is. There's a part of him that can't wait to put him in his place. There's a part of him that knows this won't just be a talk. Anosiete stirs in the back of his mind, urges him to do what must be done. Get rid of the threat, don't waste time chatting.

❝ Aurelius, right? Yeah, I'm Seofon- Fiyero's partner. Gotta say, you left her in a really bad spot. ❞ He can't really have this talk right in front of a clinic. This isn't anyone else's issue- but it doesn't stop the Gateway-Star sword from manifesting in his hand in fragments of light.

❝ I don't want to make a scene here, but I'm not going to leave until you tell me what the hell you were thinking doing something like that. ❞

[ostentumm]

@lethalitisms

Someone Oliver recognizes, but then...there's this strange feeling of no, I've never met this person in my life. Large mutant hand clutches tightly onto the railing he's sat on. He doesn't mean to grab it so tight, but...

515--no, Oliver is still learning. He's still learning the ropes of the world OUTSIDE. He's really taken a step out and into a whole new world.

Hope the man below doesn't mind being WATCHED.

[hanabisays]

@inablinkgone

She had woken up in a rather unfamiliar surrounding. The room she woke up in was clean, well kept, and had a lot of cute objects that she knew, she was not even allowed to keep. She was surprised to see things that were unfamiliar to her.

Then, when the singer stepped out into the world, she was greeted by bright light. A sun, the sound of people chattering...People and not...

...She was surrounded by people that looked like her and for those that didn't---they walked amongst the humans.

She feels disorientated. As if she's taken a very long nap and woke up confused. she is confused.

it's only natural that she'd reach for the nearest person, fingers wrapping at the ends of his sleeve, "E-Excuse me."

[uwps002]

@uwps001

🎔 This was certainly a pickle. Céline had two set of memories that were overlapping. Both ones of her time as a monster, and then the other of her time as an idol in a world where she was otherwise normal. It seemed to be the case that this was common among some of the city's people, but not all of them. Some didn't seem to realize that anything had changed at all.

Like her twin brother!

"Constantine? Would you say that you're happy?" She asked while the two were alone. She more or less knew the answer, but she felt like she had to hear it. Forgetting all of their trauma couldn't be anything but good, really.

[indomitableblackdragon]

"While I got you here I gotta ask have you seen a dragon around here? I've been looking for 'em all morning but they probably haven't ran off too far."

Most people would probably be a little bit more that a partner in crime was off roaming about. Especially one that had a bit of a devious streak from what little NJ knew about them. Still this whole thing going on didn't quite settle into the battleship's mind just yet. Even if she herself knew none of it made any real sense in the slightest bit.

"They're about yay small, yay wide, green little fella. Might be trying to get onto someone's shoulders or steal their food. Probably better I get my eyes on them sooner rather then later before they really get up to no good."

@bitemedotmp3 | event s.c

[deathreversed]

@witchoftrinity

Something is happening in the city again. Nier isn't completely sure of what's it is, exactly, but she can tell by the buzz of uncertainty that hangs in the air that something is off. Standing in one of Archimedes' busy streets, she looks around. Names, faces, people, they're all similar, but... Not quite the same. She can't put her finger on it, no matter how many memory files she digs through.

Or has something changed with her? Nier looks down at her hands, which are still silvery metal. She feels her face, with her glassy visor and the warmth of her CPU beneath it. Her hair is still long and black, in her chest beats a bio-mechanical core, her eyes are still red- everything is as it should be.

Nier breathes a simulated sigh of relief. Whatever's happening, it doesn't seem to affecting her, thank goodness. For now, she can just do what she always does, and wait for it to wind down. Spotting a familiar profile on the other side of the road, another wave of relief washes over her. Mika looks the same, so perhaps she was also able to escape the influence of whatever's going on.

"A-ah, M-Mika! Over here- e-excuse me..." Being so short in a city of humans has its disadvantages at times, and Nier squeezes through the crowd. She finally emerges in front of the other girl, straightening her clothes.

"Sorry for calling to you out of the blue. I know we didn't have any plans, but today just feels... off. I'm not sure how to describe it..." She wrings her hands, feeling... shy? Embarrassed? She's not totally sure. "Would you mind if we spent some time together? I think it would help calm my nerves..."

[anghexescu]

@innerbeast

WHAT on ISOLA happened here? Klaus had been pulled into this specific area because he had felt Aurelius' aura. He had picked up the feeling of death in the air. It clung like a lifeline. So close, very near. What he expected to see was in fact a dead body, but instead on the ground, he's standing witness to feathers burning slowly. Once white wings are now charred, slowly disintegrating. Klaus steps forward until he's closer to the burning wings. It isn't just one pair. There were a total of five, but none of them were gold.

"Aurelius!" Klaus calls out. These were not his wings and these bones scattered and discarded like nothingness was not his. Who did these belong to? he had been here, but someone else had as well.

...Speaking of...

Klaus can feel that he isn't alone here as well. The stench of blood and perhaps the aura of an angel has also beckoned for a demon to come. Or at least when Klaus turned to face them, he expected a demon and instead, it's a near-familiar face.

"Dar'khol?"

[wldrose]

@bitemedotmp3

"I have no idea what's going on," the small plush doll kicks a random rock idly. "I have no idea where my little red rubber hammer went either!" Pointing with a little red bear bean, she then says, "Do you think you can fly and see if you can find it for me?"

How can one possibly say no to a plush bear like Kookie Beary?

[learnspells]

@deathreversed

ʚїɞ - "It's very jarring to just suddenly wake up and have a new life pushed upon you. I know things I didn't know before, and I can even fight differently." It wasn't like Fern to express her grievances to others at all, but it was like the Fern of Remnant to do so. Being aware of what had changed didn't mean she could deter the effect, it seemed...

"But what do you think, Nier? Do cat ears suit me?" That wasn't a question she ever thought she'd be asking someone. She definitely wouldn't have asked it to a man after how Stark reacted to that headband back in her home world. ...Her original home world?

[witchoftrinity]

"If I knew someone else was out here I would've came around to seeing them a lot sooner."

Of course Mika knew that probably wasn't the complete truth in today's case. It might've been a gut feeling or a false flag but for someone that checked their phone so compulsively every morning Mika felt she would've noticed at least one familiar name through the contact list. Still it was only something small, especially considering she was already passing the hot cup of liquid right over to the individual sitting across from them.

"So you have to tell me about yourself Ranma!" Mika said, almost as if she was completely oblivious to the mere idea they weren't an actual student to begin with. "Do you have any hobbies? Oh, what clubs are you part of?! Anyone you have some secrets about?"

@jusenkyocursed

[ellysiland]

lore—ley was being dragged around by MANTY again but honestly?? the hydro—allogene didn't care. MANTY seemed happy with whatever it was doing, seemed excited to drag her somewhere. and who was she to stop them?? ⁽ probably, as a creature tied to her sinner powers, it knew that it wasn't meant to be here at this moment and was making up for time lost ⁾ ❝ manty, slow down!! wherever you want me to go, will still be there. you shouldn't rush!! ❞

flickers of feelings, of emojis flashed through her mind, a response from the manta—ray ⁽ glee urgency fun fun puppy now ⁾ which caused the girl to laugh. where did the puppy come from?? was it cabbage?? ❝ oh wait, manty!! ❞ shoot, with her mind set to deciphering her companion's messages, lore—ley almost missed it slamming it's body against @lethalitisms , dousing the poor man in water.